American Culture Transformed: Dialing 9/11

ISBN-13: 9781137002334 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 179 str.

Bruce Tucker; Priscilla Walton

Opis

The bombing of the Twin Towers in New York City on September 11, 2001, marked a major turning point in modern American culture. Priscilla Walton and Bruce Tucker examine critical moments in the aftermath of 9/11 - the Enron scandal, the trial of Martha Stewart, the capture and rescue of Jessica Lynch, the torture at Abu Ghraib prison, the widespread popularity of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code and Tim LeHaye's "Left Behind" series, Michael Moore's movie Fahrenheit 9/11, and former president Ronald Reagan's funeral. The authors argue that commentators on the American scene abandoned complexity, seeking to reduce events to their simplest signification. They ask how the singularity of meaning came to dominate American cultural consciousness, and they seek to theorize the critical cultural and political movements of the post 9/11 period.

Recenzje

'American Culture Transformed offers an interesting sampling of the cultural landscape in America after 9/11. The authors provide compelling snapshots of iconic moments and figures from the military, economics, the arts, and politics. The book will stir memories and make us uncomfortable again.'

- Mary Poovey, New York University, USA

'With its clear methodology and its sweeping approach, Dialing 9/11 is an accessible and overall convincing approach to that recent decade.' -Transatlantica

'Published just months after the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Priscilla L. Walton and Bruce Tucker's American Culture Transformed, by pertaining to both media and gender studies, strives to contribute a complementary and original point of view to the debates about the post-9/11 years...it is highly documented, accessible, and is pleasant to read for scholars or non-scholars interested in various aspects of American contemporary culture.' - Vincent Souladié, Media and Diversity, 2014

Spis treści

Preface Heroes, Hype, and History Spinning and Counter-Spinning Jessica Lynch and Lynndie England Corporate Complications Sometimes Paranoia is Just Common Sense: Leaving Behind Da Vinci A Movie and a Funeral: Michael Moore and Ronald Reagan circa 2004 Conclusion: Fast Forward List of Works Cited Index

O autorze

BRUCE TUCKER is a professor of History and Associate Vice-President, Academic at the University of Windsor, Canada. He is co-author with Zane L. Miller of Changing Plans for America's Inner Cities: Cincinnati's Over-the-Rhine and Twentieth Century Urbanism (1998) and co-editor with Philip J. Obermiller and Thomas E. Wagner of Appalachian Odyssey: Historical Perspectives on the Great Migration (2000). He has served on the program committee and the international committee of the American Studies Association and on the international committee of the editorial board of the Journal of American History. He is currently a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Appalachian Studies. His reviews and articles on American intellectual and cultural history have appeared in the New England Quarterly, American Literature, Prospects, Canadian Review of American Studies, Appalachian Journal, Journal of Appalachian Studies, American Studies, and Eighteenth-Century Studies. He is currently working on a study of the revolutionary tradition in modern American political culture.

PRISCILLA L. WALTON is a professor of English at Carleton University, Canada, and Director of the Carleton Centre for Research in American Studies. She is also editor of the Canadian Review of American Studies, and has published numerous books and articles in the United States and Canada, including Our Cannibals, Ourselves (2004) and co-authored Detective Agency: Women Re-Wrting the Hardboiled Tradition (1999), Border Crossings: Thomas King's Comic Inversions (2003), and others. She was the first Canadian president of the International Narrative Society, President of the Henry James Society, and President and Session Chair of the MLA Division of Literatures Other than British and American. She has also served on the PMLA Advisory Committee, and been a member of the Program Committee of the American Studies Association.